Japan

Summer Reading of Our Discontent

Global escapism is flourishing in the Great Recession.

BY LIESL SCHILLINGER | SEPT. / OCT. 2009

A Whale of a Controversy

Japan's dolphin-hunting industry gets skewered in The Cove, a just-released documentary by director Louie Psihoyos. But after this year's setbacks at the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting, dolphins aren't the only marine mammals that are in trouble.

BY BRIAN FUNG | JULY 31, 2009

Think Again: Japan's Lost Decade

As the economic gloom deepens, many American politicians and commentators have invoked the recent history of Japan as a cautionary tale. But the comparison may be more misleading than helpful.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | APRIL 3, 2009

The Sick Man of Asia

Why we'll miss Japan when it's gone.

BY MICHAEL AUSLIN | APRIL 3, 2009

Korea's Cyber Vigilantes

BY JAMES CARD | DECEMBER 13, 2007

Hey, Big Spenders

Candidates vying for the Oval Office are expected to spend more than $1 billion in the run-up to the November 2008 U.S. presidential election. But the need to build a massive campaign war chest is a global phenomenon. Here’s where fat wallets make the biggest difference on Election Day.

AUGUST 15, 2007

Japan's Cartoon Network

BY STEVEN VOGEL | APRIL 25, 2006

Japanese Passivity

BY SHINTARO ISHIHARA | AUGUST 30, 2005

A View to a Kill

Unlike capital punishment in the United States, Japan's death penalty is on the rise. Japanese officials keep state executions out of public view and shrouded in secrecy. Not even the condemned prisoners know the day they will die. Step inside the gallows for a rare look at how Japan takes a life.

BY CHARLES LANE | MAY 5, 2005

Japan's Hybrid Women

BY AYAKO DOI | NOVEMBER 1, 2003

Web of Despair

BY DIANNA LEE | SEPTEMBER 1, 2003

Japan's Skid Row

BY RICHARD KATZ | MAY 1, 2003

Trading Places, Part 2

BY AYAKO DOI | JULY 1, 2002

Eat, Drink, Be Corrupt

BY THOMAS BLANTON | JULY 1, 2002

The World According to Larry

INTERVIEW BY MOISÉS NAÍM | JULY 1, 2002

Japan's Gross National Cool

Japan is reinventing superpower -- again. Instead of collapsing beneath its widely reported political and economic misfortunes, Japan's global cultural influence has quietly grown. From pop music to consumer electronics, architecture to fashion, and animation to cuisine, Japan looks more like a cultural superpower today than it did in the 1980s, when it was an economic one. But can Japan build on its mastery of medium to project an equally powerful national message?

BY DOUGLAS MCGRAY | MAY 1, 2002

We Three Kings

Grappling with a global recession, the world's top central bankers discover that all political economy is local.

BY CAROLINE ATKINSON | JANUARY 1, 2002

Mutually Assured Suspicion

BY KATSUHISA FURUKAWA | MAY 1, 2001

Japan's Right Stuff?

BY AYAKO DOI | JANUARY 1, 2001

Tokyo's Pantry

BY THEODORE C. BESTOR | NOVEMBER 1, 2000